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Jarvis: Save Us from the Supreme Court

By Caroline Jarvis, Opinion Writer August 2, 2023

  The nature of the Supreme Court allows it to be overtaken by certain groups, and conservatives are using it to their advantage. They have solidified judicial power so harmful presences like former...

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Loken: Nuclear Projects Torment Life on Earth

By NingLi Loken, Opinion Writer July 23, 2023

  Nuclear catastrophe is unacceptable. The U.S. set a global precedent of carelessness surrounding environmental degradation, creating a nuclear nightmare. Though highly contested, Japan plans...

Sunset over the Great Salt Lake from the Avenues in Salt Lake City on Monday, June 20, 2022. (Photo by Marco Lozzi | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Loken: Dear Settler

By NingLi Loken, Opinion Writer July 18, 2023

  As a non-Indigenous Asian person in America, I am a settler. “Settler” refers to all who aren’t the First People of a given place-territory. We dwell on the disruption of Indigenous ways...

A child hugs a protestor at the protest of the potential overturn of Roe V. Wade at the Utah State Captiol on May 5, 2022. (Photo by Xiangyao Tang | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Jarvis: Utah Isn’t Pro-Family

By Caroline Jarvis, Opinion Writer July 17, 2023

  From 1973 on, pregnant people in the U.S. had the legal right to abortion due to the ruling of Roe v. Wade. In June of 2022, the ruling was overturned, upon the claim that abortion is not protected...

The Salt Lake City Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Aug. 28, 2020. (The Daily Utah Chronicle | Gwen Christopherson)

Hargis: Shame, Control and Abuse in Church Organizations

By Harper Hargis, Opinion Writer July 17, 2023

  When I transferred from public school to a private Catholic school at the age of 11, I knew next to nothing about religion. I’d previously attended a public school in the Pacific Northwest...

The John R. Park Building at the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City on Saturday, July 8, 2023. (Photo by Sophie Felici | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Loken: Where Are the White First-Generation Scholars?

By NingLi Loken, Opinion Writer July 10, 2023

  The First Generation Scholars program held a summer social, but curiously missing from the event was the presence of white students. I entered the space to find out why. In the process, I learned...

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Champine: Starbucks Must Do Better for the Queer Community

By Morgan Champine, Opinion Editor July 9, 2023

  Starbucks Workers United, the union representing the 150 stores on strike, issued a statement saying that many Starbucks locations have been banning pride decor from their stores or telling their...

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Jarvis: The LDS Church is a Big Business

By Caroline Jarvis, Opinion Writer July 7, 2023

  Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pay 10% of their monthly income to the church as tithing. I grew up in the religion, so as a child I gave 10% of what little money...

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Hargis: When Protests Fail

By Harper Hargis, Opinion Writer July 1, 2023

  If only to add to the horrifying soup of events the past two years have been cooking, the Atlanta city council has just greenlit a project to militarize their police force. Thousands of angry...

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Loken: Racism is Tanking Quality of Care in Hospitals

By NingLi Loken, Opinion Writer June 30, 2023

  The COVID-19 pandemic brought long-held, festering prejudice to the surface of every field of employment. The healthcare industry is a space where we can least afford racialized hierarchies...